Attorneys representing Linda Holmes and Constance Gilbert claim their clients suffer from mental illness that causes them to hear voices that aren’t there and may not have the mental capacity to stand trial.

Pending the outcome of the mental evaluations, Holmes and Gilbert are set to stand trial in Montgomery County Circuit Court on aggravated child abuse charges on June 16.

They are accused of causing Tramaine Ridgeway Jr., who goes by the nickname T.J., to suffer severe burns to more than 35 percent of his body while he was in their care in August 2013.

Holmes and Gilbert were arrested Aug. 10, 2013. They remain in the Montgomery County Detention Facility on $100,000 bond.

Days before the incident, Attorney Fred Gray Jr. claims in court documents that Holmes sustained head injuries when she fell out of the bed of a truck as it was traveling down a highway.

T.J.’s mother, Stephanie Morgan, said she doesn’t know how her son came to be burned and how long her son suffered before Holmes and Gilbert brought him to the hospital. Morgan often left T.J. with the two women for days at a time as she worked out of state.

Morgan said she wasn’t aware that either woman suffered from mental illness.

Morgan said to her knowledge, Holmes wasn’t seriously injured when she fell out of the truck in July. She only broke a toe.

She says T.J. suffered burns to his hands, arms and legs and lost the tips of nine of his fingers while in the care of his babysitters.

He has undergone several skin graft surgeries and is scheduled for another next month to help reconstruct his hands, Morgan said.

Morgan said T.J. continues to recover and is acting like a normal 2-year-old boy.

He loves to play with cars, she said.

“He is happy,” Morgan said. “He gets into a lot of stuff. “

T.J. goes to occupational therapy to help him gain more use of his hands.

Nearly a year after the incident, Morgan says she still isn’t able to go back to work. She has to take care of her son around the clock, and she doesn’t trust anyone else to watch him.

“It is kind of hard not working,” she said. “My house recently got broken into in April. Last week someone stole my ID and my phone, and it was hard to get another phone to have my number transferred to.”

T.J. is on Medicaid, which pays for his medical expenses, but she still has a difficult time paying all of her bills.